The 2011 Grabby Awards

The Graboid is a regular feature of CHUD, a game played between us and the Chewers, where we “grab” a still from a movie and invite the readers to try to guess from which film it came. It has both its regular (i.e. rabid) and its casual players as well. We keep track of who has amassed the most successful guesses and we compile them for this year-end tally below. On Christmas, we completed the year-long competition with a massive grabfest called Armagrabbon. It was a Christmas filled with triumph, heartache, and giant worms adorning Chewers’ trophy cases. The results from the year of Graboid are below. And a big thanks to everybody who made it another fun year of grabbin’.

LE NOUVEAU GRAND POOBAH

When I took over doing the Graboid some 2.5 years ago, the first entry was Road House. And the first Grabber was Manny Fraker. Since then, he’s taken down 92 of the things, an all-time record. This includes a ridiculous 71 this year alone. Manny was like a dog with a bone…or rather maybe, a sabretooth with a hunk of meat. He wasn’t letting that bitch go…unless it was to eat the guy trying to take it away from him. Manny killed 18 Graboids at Armagrabbon, and were it not for some flimsy excuse like spending time with his family on Christmas, we fully suspect there would have been more.

By the sheer number of worm carcasses buried in this guy’s back yard, Manny is the undisputed greatest Graboid hunter of them all and thus the exalted high Grand Poobah for 2011. Manny, your brilliance dazzles us like a diamond in the sun, and to that brilliance we must all kneel before you like you were Zod. ‘Cause you are the Graboid-killing Kryptonian.

Manny Fraker

Swordfish

1/26

Training Day

5/18

Phantasm II

2/2

You Only Live Twice

12/25

For Your Eyes Only

12/25

Major League

1/26

6/2

The Rookie

1/24

I Heart Huckabees

11/2

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

1/23

The Fly

9/23

The Godfather

5/12

Bridge on the River Kwai

5/23

Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires

5/24

Menace II Society

5/30

Marnie (Trailer)

6/9

On The Waterfront

6/14

Carnal Knowledge

6/15

The Wraith

6/16

Born on the Fourth of July

6/28

Hondo

7/7

Faster

7/13

Death Wish

7/15

Ocean’s 11 (1960)

7/18

Stephen King’s It

7/19

How Green Was My Valley

7/20

Backdraft

7/29

Krush Groove

8/9

Invasion USA

8/11

Mahogany

8/12

Contagion

9/13

Executioners From Shaolin

9/19

Little Big League

9/28

Fast Break

10/10

Eddie

10/11

Love and Basketball

10/14

Children of the Corn

10/31

Halloween 4

10/31

Critters 2

10/31

Delta Force

11/7

Breaker! Breaker!

11/10

West Side Story

11/18

Jingle All The Way

11/21

Shocker

11/23

Vanishing Point

11/24

Convoy

11/24

Who’s Harry Crumb?

11/24

Fluke

11/24

Sunset Boulevard

11/24

The Birds (Trailer)

11/24

The Dirty Dozen

11/24

Unforgiven

11/24

Igby Goes Down

11/24

Hoosiers

12/16

Sophie’sChoice

12/25

Verdict

12/25

AboutLastNight

12/25

Deliverance

12/25

Vertigo

12/25

Clue

12/25

Bullitt

12/25

Showgirls

12/25

Getaway

12/25

Holes

12/20

Maximum Overdrive

12/25

American Graffiti

12/25

In the Company of Men

12/25

Touch of Evil

12/25

Drowning Pool

12/25

French Connection

12/25

Streets of Gold

12/25

THE HOLIDAY KILLER

Jexxon was the 2011 Silver Medalist with 55 total Graboids. That’s more than the Grand Poobah bagged last year, which shows you the level of competition this past 12 months. Right before the holiday season kicked off, Jexxon had an impressive total of 21 Graboids. Come Thanksgrabbing and Armagrabbon, though, he kicked it up a notch or two and scored an insane 31 Graboids, including a record 23 on Armagrabbon. Not only was he making it a couple of bad holidays for the worms, but for the competition as well. Jexxon, you’re the Grinch of Graboid killin’. Well done.

Jexxon

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

2/6

Thunderball

12/25

Titanic

5/17

Hollow Man

3/7

After the Sunset

10/12

Superman Returns

12/25

Wrestlemania III

1/7

The Empire Strikes Back

1/28

Highlander

2/19

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

5/5

Force 10 From Navarone

5/27

[Rec]

6/24

Yankee Doodle Dandy

6/27

Fort Apache

7/5

The Searchers

7/6

Rio Bravo

7/8

The Naked Gun

8/8

Far and Away

8/16

Blitz

8/30

Braddock: Missing In Action III

9/6

American Samurai

9/8

Shriek If You Know

10/31

Scream 4

10/31

Top Dog

11/8

The Hitman

11/11

Harry Potter…Azkaban

11/24

The Great Dictator

11/24

The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox

11/24

Ishtar

11/24

An American In Paris

11/24

Gigi

11/24

Sugarland Express

11/24

Lone Wolf McQuade

11/24

Cursed

12/14

Gate

12/25

CHUD

12/25

LostHighway

12/25

Always

12/25

BroadcastNews

12/25

Syriana

12/25

Duellists

12/25

Twilight

12/25

Shaft

12/25

Antichrist

12/25

Mogambo

12/25

From Here To Eternity

12/25

Blood of Heroes

12/25

Zero Effect

12/25

A Walk on the Moon

12/25

Prince of Tides

12/25

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

12/25

Jason and the Argonauts

12/25

Diving Bell and the Butterfly

12/25

Switching Channels

12/25

In The Bedroom

12/25

FEAR HIMSELF

Teitr was the runner-up in 2010. At last year’s Grabbies, I called him the Scariest Dude in the Game. The guy could appear out of nowhere and just snatch a Graboid out of thin air or grind out the answer with the best of them. He wasn’t around quite as much this year, but he was never far away and still bagged 26 worm trophies for the den, including 8 at Armagrabbon. Teitr, say it loud: “I’m Bronze and I’m Proud!” More importantly, you’re still a scary dude at this game. When Graboids see you, they run…er slither away.

Teitr Styrr

Sneakers

12/25

In Bruges

12/25

Rambo

1/9

Top Gun

1/12

Superman/Batman: Apocalypse

1/30

Miss Congeniality

2/14

Thor

2/17

The Godfather

2/22

Fast and Furious

3/3

World Trade Center

5/3

The Crazies

9/29

Super 8

6/21

Boondock Saints

8/1

Crazy/Beautiful

8/23

Colombiana

9/12

Serenity

9/22

Major League: Back to the Minors

9/26

Gremlins

10/31

A Beautiful Mind

11/17

TrollHunter

12/25

Darkness

12/25

Ladyhawke

12/25

Transformers

12/25

Friday the 13th (2009)

12/19

Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets

12/25

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

12/25

CAPONE

RCA has taken down 23 Graboids this year, all from the Windy City. He’s just like Scarface Al: if he saw a Graboid he didn’t like, he made it disappear.

RCA

Coming To America

10/13

Phantasm II

5/31

Freakonomics

2/8

For Colored Girls

4/20

Vanilla Sky

5/2

Rain of Madness

5/10

The Expendables

6/7

The Crazies

6/20

The Patriot

6/29

Sea of Love

7/26

Flesh and Bone

7/27

A Shot at Glory

7/28

The Curse

8/2

Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark

8/17

Ravenous

8/18

Graboid With Benefits

9/12

The Replacements

10/4

Brian’s Song (2001)

10/7

Halloween 4

10/31

Halloween (2007)

10/31

Hellraiser

10/31

Surviving Christmas

12/12

A Christmas Story

12/13

POOBAH EMERITUS

The two-time defending Grand Poobah has been busy this year off making movies rather than bagging worms. Of course, that didn’t stop him from showing up at Armagrabbon and snagging 15 of the subterranean bastards. Up until very very recently, Walter (aka Rich) was the all time leader in Graboids killed. The new Grand Poobah had to work his ass off to catch this guy and take the crown. But there’s little doubt to those of us who play the game regularly that Rich is the Professor of Graboid. You have earned your worm-killing tenure, sir.

Walter The Einstein Frog

Lethal Weapon 2

2/9

New Jack City

2/20

A Few Good Men

3/6

Minority Report

5/4

Mission: Impossible III

5/6

American Ninja

9/7

12/25

Home Alone 3

12/25

Disturbia

12/25

Labyrinth

12/25

Irreversible

12/25

Heist

12/25

Striptease

12/25

Ivanhoe

12/25

Expendables

12/25

Legend

12/25

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

12/25

The Green Slime

12/25

Trancers

12/25

Towering Inferno

12/25

Great Train Robbery

12/25

THE GREAT WHITE

The guy’s handle may be Hammerhead, but it doesn’t do him justice when it comes to Graboid killin’. He bagged 17 of them this year. There’s a reason Graboids don’t go in the ocean…

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